The Frank Sinatra Collection: The Detective/Lady in Cement/...

The Detective: When the son of politically influential man is brutally murdered, thick-skinned detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is assigned to the case. His job becomes even more challenging when he has to convince the entire police department to see past the victim's sexuality. After the dead man's roommate is convicted and Leland moves on to his next case, it appears that the two cases may be linked, and the wrong man may have been penalised. With an all-star cast that includes Lee Remick, Tony Musante and Jack Klugman, The Detective is one of Sinatra's most gritty and powerful films. Lady In Cement: The action-filled sequel to Tony Rome again stars Frank Sinatra as the renegade detective. While diving for treasure, Rome discovers a beautiful blonde anchored by a block of cement! Hired by a man named Gronsky (Dan Blocker) to find a missing girl, Rome wonders if the dead blonde and the missing girl are one and the same. He also wonders why everyone he talks to either winds up dead - or out to kill him! What's worse, the number one suspect in the murder turns out to be Gronsky himself! The all-star cast in this electrifying film includes Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Pat Henry and Lainie Kazan. The Manchurian Candidate: Eerie, shocking, daring, thrilling and mesmerising, The Manchurian Candidate will leave you breathless (People)! Featuring an all-star cast, including Angela Lansbury in an Oscar-nominated performance, this chilling and controversial (Leonard Maltin) film may be the most sophisticated political satire ever made (Pauline Kael). When a platoon of Korean War G.I.s is captured, they somehow end up at a ladies garden club party. Or do they? Major Bennett Marco (Sinatra) cant remember. As he searches for the answer, he discovers threads of a diabolical plot orchestrated by the utterly ruthless Mrs Iselin (Lansbury) and involving her war hero son (Laurence Harvey), her senator husband (James Gregory) and a secret cabal of enemy leaders. Von Ryans Express: Frank Sinatra takes command in one of the most exciting of all war chases (LA Times), Von Ryans Express, an Oscar-nominated, full-throttle, escape thriller featuring Trevor Howard, Edward Mulhare, James Brolin and Adolfo Celi. Central Italy, August 1943. With the collapse of the Italian war effort, the SS herds 400 Allied POWs aboard a heavily guarded freight train and embarks for an internment camp in Austria. Realising its their only chance to escape, Colonel Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) and a handful of officers manage to subdue their guards and hijack the train. Barrelling across Nazi-occupied Italy, Ryan and his men race for the Swiss border, as German troops, the Gestapo and a dive-bombing fleet of enemy Messerschmitt follow in deadly pursuit. Fast, suspenseful and exciting (Variety), Von Ryans Express is a whacking good war yarn. (Life)!